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To: Demidog
You must skip over those parts of the Bible that don't comport with your view. The Israelites wiped out the Caananites (supposedly by God's command) because they were of different religion.

The Israelites wiped out the Canaanites (per God's command) because the Canaanites exhibited some very nasty religious and lifestyle practices (including child sacrifice).

If you take any religion and attempt to put its teaching into practice as a political system, you exclude other religions. That is a fact which can't be disputed. In that regard, Islam is no different than Christianity or Judaism.

"Thou shalt have no other God's before me."

That alone is a commandment which exludes other religions.

Any serious student of the Bible knows that the world's history has passed from the Old Testament's context to the New Testament's context.

In the Old Testament, GOD brought into being, nurtured, and settled (in Canaan) a people through which His salvation would come into the world. Relationship with God then was essentially a corporate (or national) phenomenom.

As of the beginning of the New Testament, that salvation (JESUS) has come and is offered to every individual, regardless of nation, race, creed, or culture. As such, there is no longer any need for any Christian-governmental alliance. It took a while for that to sink into our skulls, (and yes, for some, it's still sinking), but that is the essential essence of Christianity today. Christians today fraternize and are inclusive with peoples of all nations, races, creeds, and cultures, unfortunately, even those which mean us harm.

238 posted on 11/21/2001 11:52:26 AM PST by Quester
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To: Quester
Any serious student of the Bible knows that the world's history has passed from the Old Testament's context to the New Testament's context

So you have just called all Jews, non-serious Bible students. Bzzzzzt. Again you are another who wishes to ignore what it says in the Bible because it sounds exactly like the Koran and other works which had violent admonitions to followers.

241 posted on 11/21/2001 12:12:56 PM PST by Demidog
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